Bimota KB998 WSBK 2025

[slopes]

First official pics of the Bimota KB998 that Lowes and Bassani will ride in WSBK next year have been released and i have to say, looks an awful lot like the current ZX10-RR

[2ndclasscitizen]

Looks exactly like what it was always going to be - a fancy chassis with a ZX10 engine. Do the current Euro regos still allow for small volume manufacturers to not have to meet emissions standards?

[rodericb]

whoah, that's tasty

[slopes]

Video on Bikesportnews of Florian Marino testing at Jerez, as he rides off you can see the frame design and i thought it was a typical ally beam frame but it isn't.
Be interesting to see the frame minus bodywork.

Also, as an aside, apparently, Pucetti Kawasaki have been announced as the official factory Kawasaki team for 2025 - i thought Bimota was the official works effort?

[hondajack85]

Last I know Kawasaki own Bimoto. Bi-Mo-Ta seemed to have done a few of these bolt together frames. Maybe its will be easier to swap out a section for different characteristics.
Anything to shake up the humdrum nature of japanese efforts in wsbk.
Maybe Johhny Ray will stop crying and go back home to bimotakaw lol.

[slopes]

First few laps of day 2 of the jerez test and both Lowes and Bassani are on the same pace as Bulega from yesterday as is Bautista.

[Drabbesttunic]

slopes said:

First few laps of day 2 of the jerez test and both Lowes and Bassani are on the same pace as Bulega from yesterday as is Bautista.

Excellent stuff

[FourWheelDrift]

Fastest 2 bikes today, https://www.crash.net/wsbk/results/1058608/1/2024-...

[rodericb]

FourWheelDrift said:

Fastest 2 bikes today, https://www.crash.net/wsbk/results/1058608/1/2024-...

Bassani is around .4 seconds quicker at Jerez on the Bimota than he was on the Kawasaki only a few days before. Lowes about the same proportion slower on the Bimota! Which is an interesting statistic but yeah it could be explained away by many things like the superpole conditions can sometimes prevent you from getting the quickest time you are capable of due to riders getting in the way, quickest laps being dropped due to yellow flags, the weeather then and now and so on. But another aspect is the change in bike - maybe the Bimota has a touch of "Ducati" which Bassani can use?